#cat

Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher. ↗

— Jan Mckingley Hilado

#personal-development #self-education #self-improvement #skills #value

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#education

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#education

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#education

A son for a flag is a lot of sacrifice. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#education

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. ↗

— Mary Pettibone Poole

#education

Teacher: a master who, through personal example, inspires students to rebel against learning. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #education

It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#thinking #education

When will you stop trying to educate me, I wonder? Never I hope. ↗

— David Nicholls

#education

A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks, which you’ll learn all about when you’re older and don’t care anymore. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#growing-up #learning #education